'Bronze Age Pompeii' Found In Italy

Discovery ^ | 12-03-2001

[TADSLOS]

And they're still living under Mt. Etna today...Kind of takes the wind out of the sails for the Earth first arguments.

[blam]

FYI

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Sabertooth]

Bump!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[RightWhale]

Sounds like those people got out of there in time. Not like the partyers at Pompeii who had plenty of warning but decided they were invincible.

[tdadams]

Wow, this is fascinating. I've had a fixation with archeology in that area since visiting Pompeii in May. It's something I'll never forget. I highly recommend everyone see it at least once in your lifetime. Especially now that flights to Europe cost about the same as a McDonald's happy meal.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

"This is a prehistoric Pompeii, the Pompeii of the ancient Bronze Age,"

An Amazing find!

Thanks for posting the article .

Sabertooth , thanks for the flag.

I was looking thru the "Topic List" for a category that this type of article might fit in.

There is a "History" but that is pretty broad.

I think we need a name for this kind of material , any ideas?

[blam]

I asked JimRob for a Science/Technology category but, never got a reply. Archaeology/Anthropology would be a good sub-category under that heading.

[d4now]

Agree, and I would very much like to see it happen.

[Sabertooth]

These are some of the names we were batting around the other day for an Archaeology list...

Digging the Past

Stones, Bones, Tomes and Thrones

Gods, Graves, Glyphs and Myths

Those were my suggestions... were there any others?

[blam]

"Gods, Graves, Glyphs and Myths"

I like this title.

[2Trievers]

Thanks Blam

Pompeii is so wonderful. It's rich surroundings yielding more information is very special!

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 12/06/2001. Thanks blam.

[ThanhPhero]

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Sorry, this page does not exist.

I did want to see if there were pictures. I will keep this one on my search list.

[Repeal The 17th]

This event has been named as the “Avellino Eruption” of Mount Vesuvius.
And you can search for more information using that term.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Looks like this is the Somma cone eruption event I’d read about years ago. There’s a Roman-era fresco in one of the formerly buried houses showing the pre-eruption Vesuvius with two peaks. The 79 AD eruption, uh, altered that a bit.

“Thousands of footprints in the surge ash deposit of the Avellino eruption testify to an en masse exodus from the devastated zone”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/SheridanVesuviusFootprints.jpg

“A human victim of the Avellino eruption found buried in a self protecting position typical of death due to suffocation. (Photo: Courtesy PNAS.)”
http://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/news/imported/hires/SheridanVesuviusSkeleton.jpg

Satellite view, appears to show the older caldera rim, with the current caldera inside it:
http://factsanddetails.com/media/2/20120225-Vesuvius TM3.png
1822 eruption (painting)
http://factsanddetails.com/media/2/20120225-Vesuvius1822scrope.jpg
http://factsanddetails.com/world/cat51/sub323/item2208.html

http://www.pnas.org/content/103/12/4366.full

http://mediterranee.revues.org/3253
http://mediterranee.revues.org/docannexe/image/3253/img-2.png

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 12/6/2001, thanks blam. Just an update.

The bronze age village Afragola buried by the Plinian eruption of mount Vesuvius 4,000 Years Ago | Arkeonews

Detailing a Disastrous Autumn Day in Ancient Italy | September 29, 2022 | Elaina Hancock - UConn Communications

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